Fifty-year-old Lawrence Reed has become the latest face of America's out-of-control big-city crime epidemic. Maybe he'll drag Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez into the spotlight along with him. Reed, as ...

While college students were just getting started on their semester studies this fall, five young men were celebrating the ...

I understand your position, but I can’t keep everybody in jail because the state’s attorney wants me to,” the judge told ...

After a fight at an Amazon warehouse parking lot late Thursday ended with a shooting, Rockford police caught two men wanted ...

A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a Chicago commuter train has a decades long criminal history, prosecutors ...

Sheriff's police say a Chicago man was released on electronic monitoring after a sting operation turned up a lot of drugs, a ...

Transcripts show prosecutors warned before his release. Reed now faces federal terrorism charges in the Blue Line attack.

This story was produced by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago that investigates issues of equity and justice in ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

A yearlong probe reveals dozens of pregnant women in jails face horrific conditions with limited medical care. Many are ...

Martell Haire is charged in the Oct. 20 deadly shooting of a 16-year-old high school student, as well as a child sexual ...

Falling overdose numbers don’t tell the whole story. Survivors and local experts warn the drug crisis still touches every ...